skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested in this as well. The overall median and mean ages of an EV with their first owner is still way above the decades lasting 3 year ICE mean.

This doesn't seem to be just an "early adopter effect" as the "neophilia" of "early adopters" you would think would trend the other way to a shorter first owner life.

If the increased first owner life of EVs remains as more "normal" people buy in, that implies there may be a major shift in the secondary/used markets and that may be fascinating to watch. It might possibly be a hugely surprising (to some) secondary effect of an EV transition. There's a lot of jobs in the used market, and such a big shift could disrupt those jobs quite a bit.

(I've got a 2012 Chevy Volt myself and don't feel a lot of pressure to replace it any time before the 15-year warranty on the drive chain/battery. I probably wouldn't replace the battery, as the small bit of pressure I do feel is that it is about time to get rid of the compromise of having an ICE generator backup I hardly/never use and move to a full proper EV.)
Nearly all attempts to "fix misinformation" on social media I've seen in the last several years ranged from hopelessly clueless to downright sinister.

"Birdwatch allows people to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading and write notes that provide informative context."

You're not going to fix anything by attacking the symptoms, which is exactly what this seems to propose. To fix the actual problem we need to create systems that generate and propagate trustworthy information, which people actually want to consume rather than attacking information you don't want people to consume.

"we have conducted more than 100 qualitative interviews with individuals across the political spectrum who use Twitter"

There is already a selection bias in play then, because there are large numbers of people who don't use Twitter for various reasons.
Glasses don't make it worse, per your optometrist. You just notice where you need to be. I'm about a -9, I wear contacts as much as possible; so I thought that's what you were saying. Don't be afraid to wear glasses.
There are two different explanations that I've read over the last few months for why we didn't see laser links on previous rounds of Starlink satelites.

First, that the unit pricing was too high. SpaceX is targeting an extremely (absurdly) low price of $250,000 BOM per satelite, and it was theorized that the laser links were blowing the budget. Estimated that it would cost ~$100k for the lasers, targeting, and electrical systems to add the links.

Second, I've read that they had issues guaranteeing that all the components of the laser system would fully burn up in the atmosphere. One of the conditions of launching low-orbit satellites is that they will fully burn up on re-entry (therefore not posing any risk when they fall back down to earth). Apparently some of the optics components had a chance of survival and ultimately possible land-impact.

I'm not sure if we can say that this launch indicates that the cost issue has been solved. It could be worth blowing out the BOM to get some operational experience having a few birds with the lasers, so perhaps they haven't fully solved the pricing issue unless we start seeing lasers on every subsequent launch.

TFA has a great animation of a polar orbit. It's basically a longitudinal orbit, so it will absolutely pass over land for a lot of the time, so clearly they must have at least solved the burn-up issue, if in fact that actually was ever an issue in the first place.

Also, FYI, there was a scheduled attempt to launch SN9 today, but it just got scrubbed a minute ago due to winds. They will be trying again tomorrow! reddit.com/r/spacex is a good place to watch for updates: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/krllbt/starship_sn9...
That would be a use of the term more consistent with aviation norms, but then the quoted figure would be very wrong (or based on a very different category of aircraft than the commercial airliners we're discussing here
What's up with this American obsession with censoring profanities? Who gets to decide what's a bad word? And why are people suddenly okay with "censored" versions of "swearwords" like heck vs. hell, or bleeping out the middle of f*ck while you can still hear both F and K...? The intent is still there...

If there is enough of other people who are annoyed by this, can we please start doing something about this?
That just becomes "rich people decide."
> In the end, does anyone really care if Twitter is "truthful"?

As it's becoming an ever-increasing method of communication between government officials and whatnot, I'd say some amount of "truthfulness" and "validity" is warranted. The other day a member of the US government (I think it was Ted Cruz? I can't find it at the moment) wrote a tweet that implied he thought the Paris Climate agreement only affected the citizens of Paris. Something as factually "write/wrong" as that should be able to be contested and held accountable to being "wrong"

That being said, I agree with you that this will not be used as intended and will undoubtedly lead to more confusion and confirmation bias from all sides. Using crowd-sourced knowledge in this manner leads to the assumption that "what the majority thinks is right is factual," and I'm reminded it was once "fact" that the sun rotated around the Earth
It's nonsense.

I was recommended this as a child - any improvement was temporary, and at best this will slow down the progression of myopia very slightly, in childhood.

Nothing beats sunlight and outdoor activity in childhood for reducing myopia, but if you already have it as an adult - you're stuck with it.
You can purchase pre-IPO shares in SpaceX (minimum investment $250K) if you have $1M in net worth.
Just as a note, GPU supported code just now seems to be coming on line with like Quantum Espresso GPU version getting an alpha in 2019. I think a large part of that is due to the 64 bit precision making the speed up not as great on GPUs (and to a large extent eliminating the usage of consumer level cards which are popular at the classical molecular dynamics software like GROMACS). Plus Guassian, while having support since Kepler days note that earlier cards didn't have the memory requirements (which also is a huge problem for consumer cards) making adoption slower, because of the added costs.
I still use every android phone I have ever bought for various home automation tasks.

Apple is a marketing company that sells computers, and apparently you have bought the pitch that they are somehow better for the environment because of what exactly?

Get off your high horse and just admit you enjoy a premium product for it's features and stop pretending it has anything to do with the environment.
Even tough it's sound pretty bad and big (and it is), this is not new to brazilians. It's a known thing that you can buy DVDs (yes, DVDs) with personal data from millions of Brazilians customers on the streets of Sao Paulo. Daylight market (called Camelo's).

There was some news articles about it a few years ago. Even the former president data was there. Social Security Number (not as secret as it is in the US and Canada), address, name, phone number. Even some family relations. It was pretty cheap.
I'm quite confident you can't run a company as big as Google without being evil but it seems useful to ponder why does it happen.

Corpo structure seems to have something to do with it, separate things into categories, then teams get categories and optimize locally without taking bigger picture into account (or even knowing what the picture is). Some regulations, maybe some pressures from some agencies about which they are not allowed to talk about. Etc.

But at some point I have to wonder about the mind of someone decisive in the company when "are we the baddies" question appears. Do they rationalize and think that "well, we need to do this because security botnets blahblah users have no idea what we are dealing with here and it's for their own good even if they don't understand it yada yada", or do they just don't give a shit. Or maybe it's like with me disliking my government - I definitely don't like it but I don't feel like fighting that giant machine at the moment, I can't do anything on my own, it would require cooperation and a plan and I have some stuff to do.
I referenced this article in a blog post last year. It's not very hard to tickle obvious bugs in bash's completion system.

However even though they are things you would do pretty frequently like

echo $(basename <TAB>

echo `readlink <TAB>

I somehow wasn't aware of them. I suspect that's because I have been using bash for something like 15 years and was TRAINED not to type those things!

Oil Uses Its Parser For History And Completion

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/history-and-completion....
There are uncountable, literally. Search for fluxbox, blackbox, fvwm, and so on, screenshots since 1996.
Those conditions allowed more infections to happen, and eventually one of them was more deadly. ANY situation that results in more infections will result in more mutations (as it is a property of the viral replication mechanism), and increase the odds that one of them will be more successful in infecting and spreading - with the possible side effect of host death.

What some folks are proposing in this thread (uncontrolled community spread so it will 'mellow out') is an even more massive expansion of that due to the quite visible ability for COVID to be infectious in patients with no symptoms for long periods of time, which Influenza has not been able to pull off.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills whenever people bring up the economy with COVID responses. The virus doesn't and cannot care about the economy or holidays, or any other irrelvancy brought up for arguments. Not to mention the obvious - sick people and people trying to avoid being sick aren't good for the economy.

It is just such blatant illogic you would expect from primary schoolers and not adults with college degrees and sought after positions to use. Like declaring "but there is a picnic scheduled today!" and proceeding to go and hold a picnic in the middle of a record breaking forest fire.
American companies will enforce American cultural norms, simple as that.
Possibly because digital policy doesn't seem to move quickly in the US. Taboola only exists because we don't have effective consumer policy and that's because we have a dysfunctional political system.
Politicians got so used to lying about voting that they eventually stepped on the toes of the rich and powerful via lies. Bad habits often come back to bite as your victim base grows outside of that which you can contain. You can bleep with the 95%, but not the 5%. The 5% have big counter weapons.

If it's shown in a court of law that the politicians lied and harmed sales of voting machines, the politicians deserve to pay painful penalties.

Same for Covid lies.

That being said, I don't trust computerized voting machines, as least those without paper backup. However, they've been dodgy for decades. To complain only when you lose an election makes you look like a hypocrite. If you really care, focus on improving the next election.
> Wanting to keep a liberal policy in place obviously isn't conservative.

Prohibiting development was originally a progressive position because redevelopment policies were being used to displace poor and brown communities. Now people want to keep those prohibitions in place because they function as a way to keep neighborhoods exclusive and generally keep things the way they are. So defending them has become a conservative position.

> the alternative is "wants to keep changing things", which isn't a political archetype that exists in reality.

Progressive is about progress and "wants to keep changing" is the whole point. From voting rights to civil rights to economic opportunity, being progressive means demanding change. The American republic is 245 years old and still has a long way to go to live up to its ideals.
Sadly they aren't wild here in the UK, but I've read a lot about them and enjoy the local spiders we get here. Spiders and octopus definitely would be ruling the world if they wanted to.
That is wildly wrong. As long as the virus is spreading, there are no evolutionary pressures on it to become less deadly.
Hmm. Wow, looking at this, I'm honestly trying to figure out how instances generate revenue. It looks entirely like a sunk cost situation?!

Video is definitely a complex usecase to solve for - and YouTube sets the bar almost impossibly highly, storing multiple copies of videos to raise the chances that whatever you want to load is pulled from a cache in a PoP nearby.

It looks like PeerTube's approach is to distribute costs amongst whoever has the money to throw at hosting stuff they're interested in. Certainly one way to sidestep the need for advertising, but... ouch, it certainly makes the barrier to entry a bit high, and IMO lends quite a bias to the results as well.
Are the stock grants also based on location? Something I didn’t think about till now. Wonder how different the stock grants will be across locations. The document above doesn’t have that breakdown even though it seems obvious it is.
The only one I can think of would be the Rotax 912, which is certified to run on mogas ("motor gas" / unleaded). But as you said, that's more for light sport and trainers.
It seems to be compared to most places that aren't Anglo-Saxon, even Canada seems to be excluded, and the U.K. seems to be quickly moving away from the nudity puritanism as of late. — Australia is very much still the iron bastion of Anglo-Saxon purity with it's censorship laws.

Even the many developing nations that have very strict moral standards on such matters seem to have no problem featuring it as an evil in fiction, in the same way the U.S.A. might feature murder as an evil in fiction, for the point is for the audience to condemn it.

But rape cannot actually be shown, as that would be too sensitive.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeIsASpecialKi...

It's a rather interesting thing. It does not seem to be entirely isolated to the U.S.A., but definitely more common there. I remember reading an interview with a Dutch criminal defence attorney, who talked about the principle that every man deserves a trial and the best legal defence, but also said that even though he personally feels that a man suspected of a sex crime should get a legal advocate, he would personally præfer it not be he, as he had moral problems with it that would make him less effective.

This was a man that regularly defended murderers, who no doubt confess to the crime within the seal of attorney–client confidentiality to him, but sex crimes are the limit? — it seems an odd standard to me.

Which was exactly the argument that the Dutchmen in the comments raised, so the mentality seems les common in the Netherlands, but not nonexistent either.
Is that a common exploit for going public?
It depends somewhat. There are very strict rules around sex on broadcast TV, but those rules largely do not apply to cable TV or internet streaming.
Uber Select is a lot nicer than UberX, for sure.

Uber Black is an even higher tier that I've only used once and don't really see the difference from Select unless it's a super long ride. However, the longer the ride, the larger the price differential.
If the Gemini was a Psion 5 only Android/Linux based, the Cosmo was aiming more at the Nokia Communicator design space -- it was much better at telephony than the Gemini.

But neither of them worked quite right, so Planet Computers are now prototyping the Astro Slide, for shipping this summer (but: expect delays -- they're usually a bit optimistic on their forecasts, and that's without COVID19 on top). The Astro Slide is basically a fat phablet phone with a slide-out Psion-style keyboard (the Psion 5's designer, Martin Riddiford, is responsible for the keyboard design on all three Planet Computing machines):

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...
Probably doesn't matter much here but I try to always use a permalink when linking to Wikipedia, as a matter of policy. This is because:

1. The permalink is the link to the Wikipedia page as I actually saw it (and can sort of vouch for). Without a permalink, when someone visits the Wikipedia page weeks, years, or even minutes later, they may see something entirely different: maybe it has been (temporarily) vandalized, or sections removed or substantially rewritten, or the whole page has been made a redirect to some other page, or worse.

2. Even if the above reasons don't apply (and someone may actually want to see the latest version), it's very easy to go from the permalink to the current version (there's a prominent notice at the top of the page), while it's hard to go in the other direction (find the version at the time my comment was posted). So the permalink version carries "more information" / is less "lossy".

Taken to an extreme, this reasoning would suggest doing the same when linking to any page on the internet: save it on the Wayback Machine and use that URL. (People have suggested this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24406193) The reason I don't (so far) do that is:

1. On Wikipedia, permalinks are really quick and easy to obtain (it's in the sidebar to the left, and you can even just right-click and copy URL) -- saving something to the Wayback Machine takes several seconds,

2. In the case of Wikipedia, it's clear that the site owner actually intends for the permanent link to be used. (No concerns about losing clicks or whatever.) As a corollary, the permalink URL is guaranteed to work equally well (in terms of uptime, how fast it loads, CSS/JS, etc) as the current version of the page itself. Can't say the same for arbitrary websites.

3. Sites other than Wikipedia don't keep changing all the time, and there's a lower risk of being rewritten as a result of my linking to it, or being replaced by some vandalism or defacement. (Most pages on Wikipedia are very good at reverting vandalism in minutes at most, but still...)
> What happened?

People fell for it.
The virus exists in multiple species. It may be perfectly fine in bats and reproduce without killing the bat. In humans, however, it kills.
Glad I am not the only one who thought this.
There was a brief period post-Uber revolution where I had become accustomed to the Uber experience but my local airport would not allow them. So I took a taxi home from the airport. The tax driver had his wife on speakerphone the entire ride. They weren't even really talking, she was just on in the background, with an occasional sound/remark. The driver also made me provide step by step instructions. It was not sufficient for me to give him the address and let him navigate there using his favorite gps app.
Doesn't this article suggest there's some truth to strengthening the eye to improve Myopia, though?

While the "new glasses" could of course be snake oil - assuming they're not for discussion would suggest that the muscles can be strengthened/corrected and all we're discussing is an implementation detail.

That's assuming these glasses actually work in this fashion, though. .. and that they work, of course.
Where? I didn't think any of the pre-IPO marketplaces took investment at that level.
From the article linked to in the posted article, a paragrah explaining why when Apple “fixed” AirPods Pros giving some people this ear discomfort, others of us were pissed off the noise cancelling had been dialed way back:

> ”The bottom line is, the eardrum suck phenomenon isn’t directly caused by highly effective noise canceling. It’s a side effect caused by the filter required to achieve highly effective noise canceling without encountering feedback problems. So it appears we may always have this tradeoff -- the headphones with the best noise canceling will produce the strongest eardrum suck effect.”

— “Eardrum Suck, Mystery Solved” - https://www.soundstagesolo.com/index.php/features/178-eardru...
The mortality rate is higher than .3%.

.3% of New York City has already died.

Unless the vast majority of New Yorkers have already contracted the virus, the mortality rate has to be substantially higher than .3%.
Nothing at this point.

Nixon killed any real trust in the 70s generation that raised the 90s kids, and Bush v. Gore, the war in Iraq, and Obama era drone strikes on US citizens without trial have killed any real trust in the 90s kids who raised the current generation. The current adult generation is having that killed by what is going on right now.

There's been three generations of general distrust (if not outright cynical belief that the government is _always_ lying), and that's not going to come back any time soon. I'm not sure there is anything that you can do beyond radical transparency and time.
Tell HN: Disable or uninstall unused extensions in VS Code
Given this has a cell modem could you run Mobian on it and use it as a chunky phone?
"The trick is to read the book first and then decide whether it's amazeballs enough to pay the price."

Goddamn, it's refreshing to hear this from the author of the book itself. An acknowledgement that book piracy exists, and that it's not so bad.
Edge computing is about to solve the IoT’s biggest problems
Legitimate large corporations are actively putting in effort to make sure apps don’t contain the word “ass” in their descriptions? What the actual fuck. What parent cares if their kid sees the word “ass”?
My understanding of Microsoft policy is that it's easier to buy macbooks for your developers than it is to buy Slack. Which makes sense, because they're currently doing head to head with slack for market share right now, while a few macbooks doesn't threaten their credibility when selling windows.

My guess is that github was using slack before they were bought and inertia is a thing. I'm sure there are people within the parent company that would like to see them transition, but I'm sure there's a ton of resistance, especially "on the ground" at github. Buyouts are a delicate thing, they don't want to ruin github by trying to force it to change too quickly.
How to rid your life of algorithmic bias and not become data for AI
Peloton sued GPLama for simply using the word ‘Peloton’. Good luck describing yourself as them!
Because they like the channels they watch and want them to get ad revenue?
Where do you see most of their collection? Most of Guttenberg collection does not have copyright claim in Germany.
A chip is not composed of cylindrical wires.

Smaller dimensions means you can set a smaller length for the wire.

As you can see on the diagram on this article, there is a large push into increasing the height of the transistors. That has being going on for more than a decade.

About the width, a finer process means you can keep the width of the most critical transistors the same, but can also trade it off into less width (and performance) where it is less important.

So, overall, smaller dimensions leads to lower resistances. You can trade some of the gain for density, but you'll always get some lower resistance.
For many people, price is the only factor; it's a luxury to be able to consider other aspects.
America is in the midst of a weird struggle to decide what those are; the companies are just trying to minimize local reputation risk.